Streetsblog San Francisco

• Tuesday: The SFMTA Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee meets. The committee will hear updates on pedestrian safety efforts from the SFPD Traffic Company and SFMTA Livable Streets staff as well as an overview of the Better Market Street Project. 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday: Bike to Work With Supervisor Mar. The SF Bicycle Coalition writes: “Talk policy points or trade political gossip with Supervisor Eric Mar on this jolly monthly tradition — catch a rocking Richmond District bike bus and roll downtown with Eric and a merry band of D1 velocitizens. Top up your tires and get on the bike bus!” 8 a.m.
• Also Wednesday and Thursday: SFMTA Town Hall Budget Meetings. The SFMTA holds two more public meetings this week to field input on proposals to reduce the agency’s budget deficit over the next two years. Show your support for much-needed measures like extending parking meter hours and enforcing garage ordinances instead of service cuts for Muni riders. This week’s meetings are at the main SF Public Library and the SFMTA’s Presidio Division Building. 6 p.m.
• Thursday: Great 2nd Street Community Meeting. Frustrated with the city’s flop on implementing 2nd Street safety improvements? Join architects David Baker + Partners and Van Meter Williams Pollack, Public Bikes, and other 2nd Street residents and businesses for “a casual community get-together” to talk about the city’s plans for bike, pedestrian, and streetscape improvements on 2nd Street between Market and King Streets. 5:30 p.m.
• Friday: SFMTA Engineering Hearing. On the agenda are two traffic circles in the Sunset and the Richmond, where traffic-calming islands on Lake Street are also proposed, along with a re-opened crosswalk on Arguello Boulevard. In Potrero Hill, daylighting and perpendicular parking are proposed on 18th Street, and 8th Street in SoMa could see the speed limit reduced to 25 mph and a bus stop moved across Howard Street. 10 a.m.
• Saturday: SF Bicycle Coalition Family Biking Series: On Road With Your Children. Get your kids ready for Bike to School Day with the SFBC’s on-road biking course, where instructors will teach parents and children “how to prepare and ride to school, including practice on a car-free space and on regular city streets with biking facilities.” 10 a.m.

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• Tuesday: The SFMTA Board of Directors meets. Staff will present an update on the Muni Transit Effectiveness Project and discuss options like extending parking meter hours to address the agency’s budget deficit. 1 p.m.
• Also Tuesday: The SF Board of Supervisors meets. On the agenda is the proposal to require indoor bicycle parking in downtown office buildings and a funding approval for the Jefferson Street redesign in Fisherman’s Wharf. 2 p.m.
• Thursday: SF Planning Commission / Rec and Park Joint Hearing: 8 Washington. This special hearing will determine the authorization of the contentious luxury condo waterfront development, which will replace an existing 105-space parking lot near the Ferry Building with 165 units and a 420-space underground garage, which the Port of San Francisco claims is needed for the area. 10 a.m.
• Also Thursday: SFMTA Town Hall Budget Meeting. The SFMTA holds another public meeting to field input on proposals to reduce the agency’s budget deficit over the next two years. Show your support for much-needed measures like extending parking meter hours instead of more fare hikes for Muni riders. This week’s meeting is at the City College Ocean Campus. 6 p.m.
• Saturday: Green Connections Walk: Birding at Heron’s Head Park with Josiah Clark. The SF Planning Department launches the first in a series of walks for its Green Connections project, an effort to “improve the city’s streets and routes that lead to our parks, waterfront and open spaces.” Explore the area around Heron’s Head Park and ”provide feedback about what you like along the way and how certain elements could be improved.” 1 p.m.
• Sunday: Sunday Streets: Embarcadero. Head out to the Embarcadero for the first of this year’s Sunday Streets events, opening up the streets as car-free places for people to walk, run, bike, skate, dance, and play for the afternoon. 11 a.m.

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• Monday: SFTRU Forum: Plan to Modernize Caltrain and Expedite High-Speed Rail. Join the SF Transit Riders Union to learn about San Francisco’s Fast Start Proposal, a new plan to electrify Caltrain and bring high-speed rail at a lower cost and shorter timeframe than proposed in the high-speed rail business plan, which is expected to be completed in March. 6 p.m.
• Tuesday: The SF Board of Supervisors meets. On the agenda is the proposal to require indoor bicycle parking in downtown office buildings, items related to the construction of the Central Subway through Chinatown, a grant for a transit-oriented affordable housing project on Fourth Street, the creation of a Balboa Park Station Community Advisory Committee, and more. 2 p.m.
• Also Tuesday: Pedaling the Peninsula: a Regional Bike Share. Join transportation officials from the SFMTA and the Peninsula at this SPUR forum to learn about the regional bike share system coming to San Francisco and Silicon Valley this summer. 12:30 p.m.
• More Tuesday: Re-Envisioning Stockton Street Workshop. “Join SPUR and the Chinatown Community Development Center in a community workshop to discuss…best practices and offer your input on how Stockton Street could look and function by 2022,” including “discussion of appropriate streetscape improvements, ways to preserve neighborhood character, finding opportunities for change, prioritizing transportation access and planning for a pleasant light-rail transit user experience.” 6 p.m.
• Thursday: SPUR Forum: The Future of the Bicycling Movement: Views from Two Coasts. “Join Paul Steely White, Executive Director of NYC’s Transportation Alternatives, and Leah Shahum, Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to find out how these leading advocacy organizations are revitalizing our communities by shaping safer, more welcoming streets and public spaces.” 6 p.m.
• Friday: SFMTA Engineering Hearing. Speak up loud and clear for a safer bike lane design on Cesar Chavez at Evans Street. The proposal is said to face opposition from businesses that run trucks on these streets, because it reduces through-lanes at the intersection. 10 a.m.
• Saturday: SFMTA Town Hall Budget Meeting. The SFMTA holds the first in a series of town hall meetings to field public input on proposals for reducing the agency’s budget deficit over the next two years. Show your support for much-needed measures like extending parking meter hours instead of more fare hikes for Muni riders. Look for more meetings throughout March. 10 a.m.

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• Tuesday: The SFMTA Board of Directors meets. The board will consider raising fines for double parkers and sidewalk riders and hear updates on the Central Subway, Mission Street repaving, the E-Line Streetcar, and the budget. 1 pm.
• Also Tuesday: SPUR Forum: Smart Growth Strategies: a Mayor’s Perspective. Ventura Mayor Bill Fulton, also an author and a principal at DC&E | The Planning Center, ”draws upon his recent experience in Ventura and his influential career in the planning and economic development fields” to discuss the future of California’s sprawling suburbs, the planning challenges we face in the current economic climate, and what planning strategies can we learn from other cities. 6 pm.
• Wednesday: Cesar Chavez East Community Design Plan Open House. The SF Planning Department invites the public to review the latest plans for the eastern Cesar Chavez Street redesign after the city dropped the previous community plan for a road diet. 6:30 pm.
• Thursday: East Bay Bus Rapid Transit Public Workshop. AC Transit holds the first of its series of community meetings to field input on its East Bay Bus Rapid Transit EIR as finalizes the project plans. Check the AC Transit website for more meetings. 6 pm.
• Friday: Critical Mass. Kick off your weekend with a ride in the San Francisco-born monthly tradition of reclaiming the streets for bicycles that has spread to cities around the world. 5:30 pm.

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• Monday: The SF Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee meets. On the agenda is the creation of the Chinatown Transit Station Special Use District for a Central Subway station at the southwest corner of Stockton Street and Washington Street. 1 pm.
• Tuesday: The SFCTA Plans and Program Committee meets. On the agenda is an allocation of funds for the SFMTA’s Traffic Calming 5-Year Prioritization Program, presentations on the Transportation Sustainability Program and the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, and more. 9:30 am.
• Also Tuesday: The SF Board of Supervisors meets. On the agenda is the first reading of the proposed ordinance to expedite sidewalk expansions, and the mayor will chime in on the SF Park Mission Bay Plan backlash. 2 pm.
• Wednesday: Green Connections Carnaval: Join the SF Planning Department in kicking off a community planning process to develop a “citywide network of green streets that can be built over time, improving pedestrian and bicycle access to parks, open space and the waterfront.” 5:30 pm.
• Also Wednesday: Join TransForm and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership in jumpstarting the Healthy Transportation Network, “a new collaboration of advocates, community members, health professionals, and planning experts from across the Bay Area.” 9 am.
• Thursday: The SF Board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee will hear an ordinance proposed by Supervisor John Avalos that would require bicycle parking access in downtown office buildings. 10:30 am.
• Friday: SFMTA Engineering Hearing. On the agenda is a set of improvements on Cesar Chavez west (including the lane change imposed by Caltrans), a set of sidewalk bulb-outs and raised crosswalks in SoMa along alleys between Fifth and Sixth Streets, and more. 10 am.

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• Tuesday: SPUR Lunchtime Forum – Time’s Up: the End of Temporary. “From parklets to bike lanes, gardens to pop-up stores, temporary urban interventions have emerged as a powerful source of innovation, experimentation and rapid implementation. But while temporary approaches can fast-track things into existence, their day of reckoning must eventually come… Join innovators Kit Hodge of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Michael Yarne of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development and John Bela of Rebar to discuss the evolution and future of temporary urbanism.” 12:30 pm.
• Also Tuesday: The SFMTA Board of Directors meets. On the agenda is adoption of the America’s Cup People Plan, a resolution supporting the quick implementation of High-Speed Rail, its termination at the Transbay Transit Center, and Caltrain elecrification; and a presentation on the city’s Transportation Sustainability Program. 1 pm.
• Also Tuesday: The SF Board of Supervisors meets. On the agenda is the appointment of Cindy Wu as Planning Commissioner, an ordinance to expedite sidewalk expansions, and more. 2 pm.
• Wednesday: Cesar Chavez West Streetscape Improvement Project Update Meeting. “The SFMTA has just announced changes to the long-awaited community-based design for Cesar Chavez between Bryant Street and Hampshire Street. Caltrans, the State Department of Transportation, is now requiring an additional vehicle travel lane on Cesar Chavez between Bryant Street and York Street, forcing the loss of on-street car parking on the south side of the street in that section. Attend a community meeting to hear more about how those decisions were made and ask questions of the city team.” 6 pm.
• Thursday: SF Planning Commission Hearing. On the agenda is a major parking reform amendment from Supervisor David Chiu and Livable City Director Tom Radulovich that would remove many parking requirements in northeastern neighborhoods of the city. 12 pm.
• Sunday: SF Bicycle Coalition Family Biking Series: Biking Pregnant/With Your Baby and Toddler. New parents and mothers-to-be can join this free two-part class to learn the facts about biking safely with their young ones and meet others who are in the same boat and share experiences. Part 1: 10 am. Part 2: 11:30 am.

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• Tuesday: The SF County Transportation Authority Board meets. On the agenda is a measure to reprogram expiring funds from bike lane and streetscape improvements on Second Street to help fund SFGo “signal upgrades” and the Cesar Chavez and Two-Way Haight Street projects. 11 a.m.
• Thursday: SF Board of Supervisors Rules Committee meets. Supervisors will consider the appointment of Cindy Wu, community planner at the Chinatown Community Development Center, to the SF Planning Commission to replace Christina Olague. 1:30 p.m.
• Friday: SFMTA Engineering Hearing. On the agenda are sidewalk bulb-outs at Irving/18th and Judah/17th in the Sunset, daylighting at intersections in several neighborhoods, and more. 10 a.m.
• Also Friday: SF Bike Party: Monster Bash! The Bike Party this month will explore some of the less-traversed southeastern neighborhoods: ”Under the cover of darkness we’re calling on the three eyed, winged, and fanged monsters to ride with us through some amazing vistas SF has to offer. So grab your bike, your tentacles, your cyclops friend and roll on down to SFBP’s February ride!” 7:30 p.m.

• Monday: The SF Transit Riders Union meets. On the agenda is a presentation from SFMTA staff on its plans to expand SFPark in Mission Bay and the 17th and Folsom area. 6 pm.
• Tuesday: The SF Board of Supervisors meets. On the agenda is a hearing on certifying the EIR for America’s Cup, the appropriation of Prop B Bonds for street repaving and improvements to the SFMTA and DPW, and a sidewalk bulb-out on Mason and Washington Streets. 2 pm.
• Wednesday: Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan Community Meeting. Join city staffers to get an update and provide feedback on the plan to redesign Jefferson Street in Fisherman’s Wharf as a place for people first that “supports a diverse and active public life.” Two meetings: 10 am and 6 pm.
• Thursday: Alameda County Transporation Commission Meeting – Measure B Reauthorization. East Bay advocates are urging supporters to speak up for increased funding for biking and walking improvements in Alameda County’s Measure B transportation sales tax, which will head to voters in November. Public comment periods are open at 12 pm and 3 pm.
• Also Thursday: Stepping Up: A Benefit for Walk San Francisco. “Enjoy a sparkling reception with wine, hors d’oeuvres, live music, a silent auction, and remarks from special guests California State Senator Mark Leno and San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim as you help Walk San Francisco make San Francisco’s streets safer and more inviting for everyone.” 5:30 pm.
• Friday: Critical Mass. Kick off your weekend with a ride in the San Francisco-born monthly tradition of reclaiming the streets for bicycles that has spread to cities around the world. 6 pm.

• Tuesday: The SFMTA Board of Directors meets. On the agenda is a measure to set penalties for fraudulent Residential Parking Permit applications, a policy for removing Muni shelters, and an update on the America’s Cup People’s Plan. 2 pm.
• Wednesday: In Oakland, the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan will go before the Planning Commission, and the East Bay Bike Coalition is urging supporters to let them know “that sharrows alone will not provide a safe bikeway through Chinatown.” 6 pm.
• Thursday: The SF Board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee will hold a hearing to ”discuss public safety policies and programs implemented by city departments, such as the SFMTA and SF Police Department, on citywide Muni lines including the enforcement of Muni fare collection.” 10:30 am.
• Also Thursday: The SF Planning Commission will hold a hearing on a two-building development at 8 Washington Street on the Embarcadero with 165 luxury condos and 420 parking spaces. 1 pm.

• Tuesday: The SF Board of Supervisors meets. Supervisors will ask Mayor Lee about the Transbay Terminal and the extension of the 14-Mission and consider a resolution urging the SFMTA to address its overtime issues. 2 p.m.
• Thursday: SF Planning Commission Hearing. On the agenda is the Salesforce campus, which will have 2,111 car parking spaces, and a mixed-use project at Grove and Gough where developers want seven extra parking spaces. 12 p.m.
• Friday: East Bay Bike Party. The theme of this week’s ride is “Ski Ho’s and Speedos.” Say the organizers: “If your costume leans in the skimpy direction, just remember to dress warmly beneath.” 7:30 p.m.